Can you breathe without difficulty?
Can you float or tread water for 10 minutes?
Can you react calmly to minor adversity?
Are you generally happy in the water?
Can you swim 200m?
Introduction to scuba diving
The exciting sport in a nutshell
The last two decades have seen an explosion in dive travel. Dive resorts have popped up all over the world and hundreds of thousands are trying it out every year. If you are thinking of learning to dive, rest assure, warm water diving is very easy to learn and almost anyone could do it. Click here for more information on learning to dive.
One of the first goals in training is to achieve neutral buoyancy. This means balancing the weight of your equipment with the air inside your jacket until you are neither sinking nor floating. For the first time in your life, you will be utterly free of gravity! For a lot of people, the soothing sensation of weightlessness in itself is reason enough to go diving. Diving seems to be quite kit-orientated initially, but once you are familiar with the kit and can achieve neutral buoyancy you will be able to really enjoy the underwater world you have just discovered.
The most popular diving destination for Brits is the Egyptian Red Sea, which boasts some of the most colourful reef scenery in the world and some stunning endemic species, a mere five-hour flight from London. You can learn to dive in just a one-week holiday to Egypt.
With time and a little experience, it is possible to dive more challenging sites, where vertical reef walls plunge into water hundreds of metres deep. Here, upwellings of nutrient-rich water and ocean currents attract shimmering schools of pelagic fish such as jacks, barracuda and snappers.
There is a huge choice of things to see and do while diving. Many people from the UK have a passion for diving the thousands of wrecks we have around the UK coast, where others prefer to travel overseas where the opportunities for adventure are infinite.
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